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Clyde Enterprise Year in Review 1957

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Headlines Recount Events Of Busy Year In Clyde Community During 1951
One seldom (om into the activity at the 'New. Year without looking back over the outgoing year
to recall and usually remtniaee
| about the' events that have made
: the news.
It's been a. ihoit eventful
year for the village of Clyde.
■with the new change of government, new businesses, construction
and general renovation throughout
the village, and everyone'
ber one topic of conversation —
the weather, which has been quite
unpredictable for the whole 13
months.
Man y of the names And happenings that made The Enterprise
front page during 1857 have been
chaonologically arranged hi the
following paragraphs for
Joyment of our readers. For one
last time, here's 1097 as
It n
JANUARY
January 3 '— Lee Myers and
Associates, Inc., announced the
purchase of property formerly
- cupied by .the Camp Grand Tourist Court, located on' u. S. Route
30, from Mrs. L. A. Harris and
Mr. and Bars. Tom Wllbert; "Blue
1! Crutch Day" held as first .
Hon campaign in 19S7 March of
Dimes Drive; Clyde Board of Ed'
ucatlon authorized Clerk Bush
Richmond to negotiate a 1100,000
loan necessary for payment
bills and a bank note due last
year, and to meet the December
payroll .at the school; Willow
Theatre taken over by Robert J.
Nuhn and John E. Keller who
operate a theatre In Vermilion:
January. 10. — A quorum -of
Clyde's Charter Framing Coromis-
<J «ion unanimously voted In favor
of a new type of government
structure which members of the
Commission believe will be of a
greater advantage to the Village
of Clyde than Its present system;
an appropriation totaling W36.-
.. 189.80 on which' to operate
Village of Clyde during 1997, was
approved and passed unanimously
by members of the Council; James
. Carothera named president of the
Clyde Recreation Board at annual
reorganization meet; Mayor Tom
II. Pask In his 1090 report to coun-
.cil.listed a total of $39,276.90 tak-
ea as fine* and costs In mayor's
court revenue,' an all time high.
January 17 — Richard Powell,
general manager of the Clyde Di-
• vision of Whirl pool- Seeger Corporation, announced plan*
further expansion at the Clyde
plant in 1097; Camp Fire'Girls
will distribute lollipops and balloons to donors for Polio Campaign; Clyde digs, out of 8-inch
mow as traffic paralyzed and
schools close, roads remain haz-
" ardoua; A Are at the residence of
Clarence Leber, an electrical contractor located north of Clyde, resulted in an estimated loss of between 113,000 and 115,000
buildings and equipment. Attorneys Thomas P. Dewey and Frank
H. Bennett announce. that they
have formed a partnership for the
practice of .law under the name
of Dewey Ac Bennett, with Offices
a in the Dewey building in Clyde.
January £4 Two-
ordinances pasted by Clyde Village
Council increasing the wages
salaries of Board of Public Affairs
and McPberson Cemetery employees have met with opposition and
have become quite a btg issue
among village officials; Amateur
talent show will feature the annual meeting of the Whirlpool
Credit Union in the CHS auditorium on January 27; The village
of Clyde will oppose a Municipal
Court at Fremont; Charter Framing Commission urges prospective candidates to file for local
office despite charter movement
January 31 — alias Betty Ball
Of Townsead Township will rep-
. resent Sandusky county at the
* Ohio State Cherry Pie contest on
February 0 In Canton; A' two-
year-old law suit case against the
vUlage of Clyde by Porter H.
February 14 — Clyde Aerie No.
2391, f. O. E. has planned a two-
day celebration for February 16
and 17 to mark the observance of
the Eagles' 19th year of existence
as an active organization In the
village; St Paula Lutheran
Church to have pariah house cor
nerstone laying ceremonies Sunday morning; Checks totaling Jll,-
220.60 were distributed-to Charities in 38 communities i
ties by the Clyde Division of
Whlrlpool-Seeger Corporation rep-
iting contributions made dur
ing 1996 by. 1900 local employees
to their Community Charities
Fund; airs. Julia *Maatz resign*
council post for position as deputy
registrar of motor vehicles In
Clyde.
February 21
large 50 It. x
Ivor'Parker Fruit Farm
Maple street causing damage
Umated at 325,000 and the loss of
two white-faced steers, a riding
horse, eight registered sheep,
Ford tractor, one set of* power
prunera, a chain saw, fruit spray-
large tractor scoop, and a
large amount of bay; a home
owned by the Frank Wotts north
of Clyde was gutted by fire, leaving a family of 11 homeless and
causing total loss of the building;
First Methodist church expects
tfugee couple from'Germany
arrive In early spring; Clyde Vocal
Music Department will present
Festival of Song February 26; Orrin G. Franks, Peat No. 122, the
American Legion, votes to sen
home on.east Buckeye street
February 28 — A 'continuous
rain soaked the.Village ot Clyde
with approximately one and a half
Inches of water, causing considerable excitement among residents bordering the Raccoon Creek,
area; Clyde Red Cross Drive '
raise (2600 .opens March 3 with
Norman Schwochow as chairman;
300 employees laid off at Whirl-
Community Chest Drive nets 36,: "~
falling short $1774.22 of the 38000
March 1 — Clyde Village Council voted a resolution opposing the
establishment Of a Municipal
Court for Sandusky County; CHS
Band Will present annual Spring
Concert March 12; 30 Clydi
musicians enter solo, ensemble
contests at Tiffin on March 9;
total of 490 license'plates, were
sold In the village during the first
week of the 1957 ■ales; Annual
Clyde School Dental Clinic will
be held March 12 ai "
auspices of the PTA.
March 14 — A series of six grass
res yesterday .kept
Clyde'! volunteer Ore department
running between their places of
iployment and the Are station,
bringing the run on alarms In the
- to a total ot 21 alnee
the first of the year; Edward H.
Scanlon, consulting; arborlst ol
the Cleveland Electric mumlnat-
mg Company, Informs Kiwanls
Club that the Village of Clyde 1*
responsible for all damage caused
by., trees, and not the property
owners; "' Camp Fire Birthday
Week, March 17-24, to be observed locally at mother-daughter tea,
March 21 — Sandusky county's
fourth .traffic fatality this year
and the first In Clyde in three
years was marked at 2*30 a. m.
Sunday as one of six automobile
passengers was killed when the
car In which they were riding
rammed' into the rear of a narked
tractor,-trailer at the west edge of
Clyde on U. S. 30, Killed was
Shirley Hoffman, 31, of
Senior Class play, "Onions In The
Stew." qbeni tonight at CHS
auditorium; Clyde Council adopts
ordinance accepting completed
charter draft; A total of 33 ares
were recorded last year as compared to the 39 fires marked In
the book since the first of the current year. Fire No. 29 was Satur-
April 4 — Dr.
health commission
county, announces
clinic at the Ai
Home In'
A. E. Schultz,
■r for Sandusky
a salk vaccine
lerlcan Legion
April 6 at
cost for. pregnant women and
children aged o through 19 years
of age; For the seventh time the*
Clyde High School Band,, directed
by ForrestTt Hale, receives a I
Superior rating from all four
at the Hope well-Lou den school ir
Bascom; -Waiting lines Jam license' branch offices. In effort tc
meet deadline; George H. Smith
to be one of 148 employes of the
Ohio Fuel Gas Co. to be honored
at a banquet of the Quarter Cen-
Fire destroyed tar* aub A*"*1 * mt Toledo;
ft. barn on thai Clyde Board of. Education sched-
~ ules meeting April 11 to employ
personnel to school faculty.
April 11 — Clyde Police breakup "gang war" attempt in village
between Clyde, Fremont, and
Bellevue youths. The premeditated
teen-age slugfest was halted when
a total of 77 youth*. Including IS
from Clyde and one from Bellevue, were, taken to the council
chamber at city hall and repri
manded by the police who were
tipped off by sheriff's deputies:
Clyde postmaster James W. Broad
this, week received an official
notice in a special postal bulletin
to curtail services beginning this
week Saturday unless otherwise
notified from the office of Postmaster General Arthur Summer-
field; Traffic began moving steadily late Tuesday afternoon and or
Wednesday as spring-like temperatures returned to Clyde following
one of the year's worst snowstorms which hit the village Sunday morning ' and continued
through early Tuesday morning
About 10 Inches of snow fell;
Harkness Davenport Is appointed
by unanimous" vote to. serve out
the unexpired term of Carl W.
Rathbun on VUlage Council; The
of Jennie Rohm has. been
1 over to the Sandusky
county grand Jury. !
April IB — A new Wurlteer
Concert Console electric organ
with two manuals and full bass
has been installed in the First
Missionary Church here as a
memorial to the late Mrs. Catherine Miller, mother of Perry C.
Miller who was killed a few years
ago In an - automobile accident:
Robert L. Evans, Whirlpool Corporation vice-president In charge
of -personnel at St. Joseph, Mich.,
has accepted an invitation to address the 1997 graduating class in
the high school auditorium on
Hay 31; Approximately 12,000
people were on hand at the Friday
and Saturday showings of the
RCA-Whlrlpool "Miracle Kitchen"
at Rainbow Gardens 'east of Fre-
Wright U scheduled for a hearing day night, at 7:30 o'clock. The
; the Mothers' March
On Folio will climax March of
Dimes Drivel Miss Mary Elizabeth
Hoffman, 18, and'Miss Ruth Ann
Richards, 19, both of Clyde, killed
when Miss Hoffman's'car crashed
into a C ft O freight train at a
crossing at the northern outskirts
of Woodbury, Mich.; Mayor Pask
doubtful about seeking re-election,
says salary does not warrant full-
t time Job.
FEBRUARY
February 7 — Mayor Pask will
be opposed for the Republican
nomination for mayor at the May
primary election by Julia C
Meats; Clyde Division of Whirl.
pooi-Seeger Corporation will a-
ward' its seventh annual- college
scholarship this spring,'according
to general manager, Richard Powell; Clyde and Fremont bands will
play a combined concert '
February 12; local March of Dimes
collections reach $2175 to top 1996
totals; Clyde School Board of Education calls special session tc
discuss 1997 financial situation
■Clyde Volunteer firemen fought
tor two hours fFrlday to control a
fire at the street department building after ■ kerosene wood burnet
local firemen have answered
total of 18 alarms in the past two
weeks; Clyde Coaaetl No. IMS,
Knights of Columbus, Joins councils across the nation in celebrating diamond Jubilee year.
March 28 — Mrs, Jennie Rohm
arrested during a raid at her home
by two Ohio department of liquor
control agents from Sandusky-
Fremont attorney Henry Stahl
tells Village Mayor Tom H. Pask
at the hearing in city hall for
Mrs. Rohm that be has no Jurisdiction In the cane; Clyde Board
of Public Affairs announces that
the State Bureau of Inspection and
Supervision has Instructed mem
to apply an Attorney General's
ruling that a landlord la liable
for municipal utility bills not paid
by his tenant; Clyde School Board
of Education approves and accepts
1997 providing for expenditures of 8104,096.79 more than lb
1996 for the general operation of
the school system; Clyde's newest
business, FerraR's lee Cream Parlor, has opening today. The business, owned and operated by
Frank Femll, is located at the
formerly occupied by Free-
i Gift Shop,
April 29 — One of the nicest
Easter holidays.In years, weather
wise, was observed last weekend
In 'Clyde and.area; Three workmen atop the new Whirlpool
building are injured by bolt of
lightning during brief rainstorm;
Some 400 youngsters scampered
over the football field at Clyde
Community Park Sunday to
out the 80 dozen hardbolled
hidden there earlier by members
of the Kiwanls Club; Clyde High
School Vocal Music Department
presents "Pop" Concert at CHS
auditorium April 30; Clyde's 200,-
000 gallon capacity water tower
was drained Thursday night in
order that the Inside could be
cleaned out and repainted Friday
with a Special type of Interior
MAT
May 2 — School busses carrying
members of the CHS Band, which
won honors in the State Band
Contest were met at the village
limits by the local' fire trucks,
police cruiser,'and a large number
of local dozens In cars and with
sirens wide Open escorted the
busses through town late Saturday
afternoon; Clyde school's at,
preschool clinic win be held
7 and 8 at the south Main street
elementary school under sponsorship- of the Sandusky County
Health Office and the Clyde PTA;
Steve-Kemper, senior, and a candidate running on the Progressive
Party, was elected as "mayor" by
decisive margin at the annual
election at CHS; A truck accident
Route 81 near East Gary, Ind.
early Tuesday morning resulted in
the death of Robert A. McGrath,
31, 317 Fair street; May 7 Is the
date for the off-year primary election when -both the Republican
and Democratic parties usually
their candidates to run foi
local of flees in the November general election. However this year
only the Republicans will hold a
primary election — mat for the
nomination for mayor of Clyde.
Running on the Republican ticket
Mayor Tom H. Pask and Mrs.
Julia C. Maati; One of the most
Important Issues In the history of
the village will be when the Clyde
voters decide at the primaries
whether to adopt the charter recently drawn up by the commission or to'retain the present type
of village government.
May • —■ Clyde Republicans
nominated a fuTJ slate of candidates to m& for village offices at
the coming'November election at
Tuesday's primary, but the results
were made null and void by the
overwhelming approval of tht
charter by Clyde voters; The long-
awaited dress uniforms have arrived for ihe Minute Men of Orrin
G. Franks Post No. 122, The American Legion; W, S. Smile will
celebrate his 91st birth anniversary on 'May 10; Clyde Village
Council approves $4,000 negotiation price in attempt- to settle
squabble with the trustees of York
and Green Creek townships and
the commissioners of Sandusky
county In an attempt to end a 80-
year dispute over the improvement of the J. R. McPherson ditch
culvert; Village clerk John Om-
dorif sep/. a letter this week to
Clyde Community Council stating
that the village haa^&lh*4cti.
on making George street into
one-way thoroughfare, and that
sign* to that effect will be install-
ed on the street in the near future;
York tajVaship sets public hearing
June irrelative to the zoning 'of
York township,- ;
. May 16 — Death saddened the
home of Mr, and Mrs. John Alafita
on Mother's Day as .they helplessly watched flames destroy their
small heme and take the life ol
their three^-month-old son, Daniel,
who Was asleep in bis crib; The
one-time pride of. the Clyde Volunteer Fire Department, a 1926
Model T Ford fire.truck, is being
re-conditioned and "re-comnus-
sioned" to ramble over the streets.
It will be seen running only, however, in a parade status. at the
Northwestern Ohio Volunteer Firemen's Association's annual parade
In Bryan; Sixty-six Clyde High
School seniors are on the tentative graduating list for the class
of 1997, including 35 boys and 31
girls. The B4th commencement
will take place'May 31; James
Workman II, a graduating senior
at Fremont Ross High, has been
awarded the 7th annual 14,000
College Scholarship by the Clyde
Division of the Whirlpool Corporation; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Wllbert,
who for years have specialized in
"tree ripened peOches" at a small
roadside stand on the Clyde-
Green Springs Road near Baker-
town, have recently retired from
the .profession and purchased the
former. Herman Bell residence In
Green Springs.
May 23 — John and Joe Wott
and John Peters of the CHS chap-
of the FFA will be awarded
the State Farmer Award by Governor C. William O'Neill at the
state convention to be held in Columbus on June 7; Members of the
village council, were told Friday
night by solicitor Bruce Hui"
that they should attempt to facilitate the city manager siuatlon
before the latter part of the year;
Whirlpool Park, one mile north of
Green Springs, will open May 30
for the season; The case of Dale
E. Williams against the Village of
Clyde and the Gage Construction
of Mansfield has been settled out
of court. Williams told The Enter'
prise this week that the construction corporation conceded and
made a cash settlement out of
court.
. May 30 —■ Clyde will hold its
annual Decoration Day memorial
services tomorrow honoring the
war dead. The observance is under the direction of Orrin G
Franks Post No. 122, .the American Legion, with Commander
Dean Rathbun in charge of
rangements; The United Vacation
Church School sponsored annually
by the Christian, Methodist, and
Presbyterian Churches in Clyde
will begin June 3 and continue
through June 14; Sometime late
Saturday .night or early Sunday
morning unknown parties broke
Into the shelter house at Clyde
Community Park, according to
village recreation director A. W.
Hendricks; Commencement exercises In Townsend, York,
Green Springs schools during the
past week saw a total of 68 high
school seniors "receive < graduation
diplomas. York school graduated
of 33; Green Springs graduated 29 students, and 16 seniors
were graduated from Townsend
School.
■'"JUNK"
June 6 — Robert L. Evans, vice
president of personnel of Whirlpool Corporation, speaking at' the
B4th annual commencement exercises of Clyde High School Friday
night, painted a convincing word-
picture to the 68 seniors with
"Your. Place In the Future." John
A. Wott was valedictorian of the"
class and Donna June Watt and
Charles A. Nleset shared salutatory honors; a wave of youngsters
lost from thuir homes and parents
hit the village and area the past
week and kept members of 'the
Clyde police department busy
patrolling the streets in search ol
them; Clyde Board, of Education
unanimously approved and accepted the names of four teachers
as. faculty .members for the 1907-
parklng lot In the south picnic
grounds in Clyde ^Community
Park; James Rose, 69, enroute
home,' escaped serious injury
Monday night when he wrecked
his auto to avoid ramming
Big Four Railroad, freight
at the crossing on Sttle Route 101;
Special |nn||iiiilil jfcfo evening
at St Paul's LutherarM&urch and
First Methodist Churcfi
max the annual vacation Bible
schools conducted by the Christian, Methodist, and Presbyterian
churches jointly, and St. Paul'
Lutheran Church; Two executives1 saved 16-year-old David Orwig of
lgnations, and re-employed non-
teaching personnel for om year
during their Tuesday night ass
et Whirlpool Corporation, Clyde
Division, appeared before village
council Friday night in relation
to the possibility of vacating
section of a certain street in the
village.
June 20 — Roger Williams
Robert Werth, and Lloyd Book-
myer .returned to Clyde Monday
afternoon after spending the .past
week as delegates for the Orrin
G. Franks Post, The American
Legion, to Buckeye Boys' State
at Camp Perry; Memories of the
past were renewed momentarily
early Wednesday morning
-few villagers watched the 1926
Model T fire truck leave for the
annual firemen's convention
Bryan; Local garden club* mi
bers met to discuss plans for the
annual flower show on August 23
and 24 at' Clyde Public Library;
Construction of a new "open"
shelter house in the south picnic
grounds at Clyde Community
Park is scheduled to get underway next Monday if weather permits, according to a statement issued by A. W. Hendricks, vUlage
recreation director; According
official reports, Clyde escaped a
ious damages when a sudden rain,
wind, and electrical storm which
lasted about one hour hit the viii -
.June 27 — A two-car head-on
collision on a curve Just east
Yeckley's Comers on Route
northeast^ of Clyde at 4:30 p. m.
Saturday'took the lives of three
people, including Crist Barnett,
34, an assembly line foreman at
Whirlpool Corporation, Clyde division; Clyde's municipal light and
power department has won its
third consecutive safety certificate in a contest sponsored by the
American Public Power Association; Clyde's school age population, agea five through IB, totatfd
1798 as of May, a new high, according to the 1997 school pupil
enumeration of the Clyde school
district aa given to school officials
light to hire an engineer to
vestigate the existing sewer
dUIons on east Maple street.
JOLT
July 4 — A six cent per hour
raise In wages will become effective for all plant employees of thfc
Whirlpool Corporation. Clydi
Division, when they' return ti
work on Monday after the annual
vacation shutdown; The fate of
the Willow Theater win be Up to
Clyde folks in the next 90 days,
according to Charles Singleton,
new manager; ball games, fireworks, and the- second annual Ox
Roast of the Clyde Kiwania Club
will feature the Fourth of July
celebration for Clyde folks at
Community Park; Games, rides,
stands, and booths will be put Into
activity along Main street next
Tuesday JOaxsibsg the.first of the
five-day Cherry Festival sponsored by Orrin G. Franks Post No.
122, The American Legion; Eight
boys from Clyde will be among
the man than 90,000 Scouts who
will team together with excitement at the fourth National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America at historic Valley Forge
Pennsylvania, July 12 to 18.
July 11 — One of the two main
actions involving expenditures
that took place at the Clyde Village Council meeting Friday night
was the purchase of a new 2-ton
Chevrolet dump truck for the
street department; Charles Kilmer,
Chris Bradford, Walter Rastetter,
Clifford Perrin, Mike Taylor, Gary
Bowser, Terry Dick, George Carter and their Scoutmaster, Howard
Kilmer, left Fremont late Wednesday afternoon for the National
Jamboree at Valley Forge; Clydi'
annual street fair opened Tuesday
night on Main street; Clyde's esti-
mated-1998 -budget Is 1702,702.90
knd is awaiting final approval by
Council; Due to the many storms
in the area recently, local farmers
have been unable to get into the
fields with combine equipment
harvest area wheat crops.
week for two
mcr training at Camp Breckinridge, Ky.; Dr. Robert Gedert has
joined his brother, Dr. .John- J.
Gedert, in the practice of general
medicine at his office on south
Main street; Ben H. Davis, of the
Green Springs road, president
the .Clyde Exempted Village Board
of Education, told The Enterprise
this week that he will not be
candidate for - re-election* next
November.
July 29 — Quick action by life
guards and a couple of buddies
York Township -from drowning
Sunday afternoon at Whirlpool
Park; Spraying or the village with
an oil soluble Insecticide
trate in nn attempt to kill mosquitoes and flies met approval of the
village fathers at the Clyde VUlagi
Council meeting Friday night;
Richard A. Bailey, Donald E. Her-
rlt, Marlon C. Smith, Stanley L.
Stokes, and Thomas R. Wilbcrt
Hied declarations of candidacy
yesterday for Clyde Village Coun'
ell. The men are endorsed by the
charter commission; Harry Ma
was high bidder on the busim
and residential building located
300 north Main street, corner of
Duane street, at an auction'
Fremont Monday of four properties in the Perry C. Miller estate:
An estimated 107' persons called
at the Frank Peters farm to
the freak black and white Holstein
calf bom there last week.
- AUGUST
August 1 — A Green Springs
driver and a Clyde passenger, after the car in which they were
riding had been dragged about 94
feet along the Nickel Plate railroad tracks here at 9:48 p. m*Fri-
day, got in the car and drove
away, according to Clyde police.
The driver was Robert L. Gurley.
Green Springs, and the passenger
was Willie R. Paxton; L. A. Rob-
bins and Sons announce the open-
Ing for public inspection of "The
Suburbia,*' their all-electric model
home located on County Road 179,
two miles south of Clyde; After
more than a ■ quarter century in
the same family, the White Front
Market has been officially sold by
G. W. Burroughs to Robert Fried'
ley, who assumed operations a
the store on Monday. C. G, Me-
Clcary and his son will handle
the meat department, as ha* long
been the custom at the White
Front; It's a rosy outlook for the
1897 peach crop due to continued
warm and sunny weather In the
past few weeks; Jack Lee Pump
taken to Maumee VaUeyCon.
taglous hospital In Toledo Sunday
tor treatment of spinal menlnglti!
by Harry c. Heffner, census tak, k August 8 _ An asking budget of
Mayor Tom H. Pask the green monthly business meeting In the
library Monday night; Police Chief
A. Dickman submitted a request to the Village Council Friday night for a 19 percent Increase
in each of the seven regular
bers' present salary in the law
enforcement deportment; A three
majority vote Tuesday
night by. the Clyde Board of Education agreed to reconsider the
possibility Of permitting all parochial school children who live In
the Clyde school district to' ride
public school busses; The new
zoning resolution for York Township will go on the November 9
election-ballot as a result of the
public hearing held last Thursday
night; There will be contests for
Clyde School Board and Clyde
Village Council at the November
election, It was Indicated as the
deadline for filing petitioi
candidacy for this election was
reached yesterday at the board of
elections office in Fremont.
August 19 — Employees of the
Whirlpool Corporation donated
192 pints of blood Tuesday when
the' Red Cross Blood Bank visited
the Clyde plant; Twelve-year-old
Larry Sutter, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Sutter, was seriously Injured yesterday when he fen beneath the wheels of a farm- tractor-pulled trailer on the Werth
Fruit Farm north, of Clyde; Fifty
seven members of Clyde Service
Battery. 140th Field Artillery Bat-
talion, Ohio National Guard, returned here Sunday afternoon
with two trophies they won while
undergoing two weeks of active
summer field training at Camp
Breckinridge, Ky.; An electrlcn'
thunderstorm accompanied bj
high winds and hail stones whipped through this area late yesterday afternoon, leaving broken
notes, trees, power lines, telephone
lines, and a tremendous amount of
debris In Its wake; John Reier was
removed to Fremont • Memorial
hospital at 4 p. m. Tuesday for
treatment of a compound fracture
Of the left, 'eg suffered in
moved into the village to enjoy
the amusements and sidewalk attractions offered at the Cherry
Festival, sponsored by Orrin G.
Franks Post No. 22, The American
Legion; September 8 has been set
as the time for the beginning of
dedication festivities tor the nev
Parish House of St. Paul's Luth
June 13 — Clyde Recreation eran Church; Fifty-seven mem-
Board at Us meeting Tosadaylben of Clyde' Service Battery,
July 18 — Lota of money was! from the upper story of the bam
floating around Main street last at his parents* farm.
"free spending" crowd < August 23 — Council has Informally been Riven the go ahead
for extension of a water line beyond the village limits on south
Main street to Limerick Park,
new sub-division being developed
by contractor Ralph C. Fox: Summer vacation for Clyde school dls-
trlct youngsters wUl end on Sep-,
teraber B, the opening day of
school for the 1997-88 school year;
'Operation Mosquito Kill" got un
derway in the village Monday
night and to date a. large section
has been covered with Octa-Phos,
the chemical name far the spray
that is being used in an attempt u
eliminate the town's mosqulti
population by killing; Warren Myers, 40, Vets Cab, and his wife.
Betty. 22.- are In fair condition at
Ashland hospital where they
admitted Saturday following a
three-car collision at the Inter,
section of D. S. 42 and Ohio 302
near Ashland, In which.Dorothl'
ann L. Brackncy of Sablna was
killed; Plenty of ripe fresh fruit is
now available to.localltcs at
erous fruit farms In the area, with
peaches still holding the-cpotligl
Edwin A. Drown has. recently
been appointed as an authorized
Cose Dealer for this area by the
J. I. Case Company Branch
Columbus and early In 1998 will
set up his business. The Highway
Implement Company, on Route 20
across from the Ford garage.
August 29 — The Clyde Exempted Village School will open or
Thursday, September 9, with a ful
rtBffort3-teachen;"3"more-thBn i
year ago added because of increased pupil enrollment, and four
replacements; Doors to the York
township school v.'ill open September 4; Riley township school will
begin the new year on September
4 as will Green Springs and
Townsend township schools; The
105th Sandusky County Fail
opens August 30 on the Fairgrounds In Fremont and will run
through September 4, this being
the first year that the fair
ever held before Labor Day:
"Susie" — the strange Holstein
goes on exhibition at the Sandusky
County Fair scheduled from August 30 through September 4 on
the Fairground In Fremont. The
calf Is owned by Frank E. Peters
and sons.
September 9 — The new 8300,
000 Parish House of St. Paul'
Lutheran Congregation will be
dedicated with fitting ceremonies
Sunday morning; Tire of undetermined origin destroyed the 'frai
super-structure of the boiler
buildings at The Clyde Kraut Co.
Felrlay afternoon and damaged
boiler gauges, plumbing, wiring,
and other equipment In the two
buildings;. Donors of O-negatl
type blood* are still being paged by
the Sandusky County Red Cross
In an attempt to save the life of
Larry Sutter who' was badly injured August 12 when be fell off
wagon and was run over by a
piece of farm equipment
AI Werth Fruit Farm.
September 12 — An attempted
move to crack-down on the traffic
driving conditions existing in the
village was unanimously approved
Friday night by members of council. It seemed, from the discussion
held within (bje walls
Council Chamber, that too many
lOtorists appear to heJtaking the
rules of the road into their
hands; Twenty-three of the CHS
1997 alumni have chosen Jobs
the business world; three have
become homemakers; four have
selected the armed forces, and 28
of the grads will enter universities
and colleges; An all-time high
',669 pupils were enrolled In the
Clyde public school system fit the
start of classes Tuesday; An ed<
vertisement In the International
City Managers Association semimonthly News Letter, requesting
applicants for manager positions
of the village of Clyde, is beginning to bring In. results; Donald
Gibson, 13, and Carol Lantz,
will be presented bronie trophies
by the Clyde Kiwanls Club next
Tuesday evening in recognition of
their outstanding scholastic
achievements last year.
September 19 — The 1997 Clyde
Community Chest Campaign Bets
underway next Monday evening
with a house-to-house porchllght
march, according to Don Herrii,
chairman of'the fund drive; Marilyn Bowersox of York township
will receive a trip to the National
4-H Club Congress In Chicago at
the tim'e of.the International Livestock Show in November as the
winner' of 4-H demonstrations at
t Ohio State Fair; Voterg
ot Townsend township will vote
four mill-school-tax 'evy-at
the General Election Noven.ber 9:
Thorold Friedley,' owner of Fried-
ley's Hl-way Super Mart; suffered
Injuries about 1:30 a. m, last
Thursday iwhen his auto collided
with a car driven by James Lee
Forsyth of Fremont on Route 20
September 26 —.After receiving
lemjthy^ewTIea""rcpbrt
maintenance and upkeep coats for
the first eight months on the 1997
Dodge police cruiser, the village
fathers by their own admission
Friday night felt they had goofed
when they complained publicly
two week/ ago that the costs were
too high; Birch, America's fore-
magician, with his
of assisting artists, will play en
engagement In Clyde; on Wednesday, October 2. at the high school
auditorium sponsored by Clyde
Kiwanls Club; Mr. and Mrs. A G.
Smith this week announced sale ot
the Clyde, Bowling Center to Mr.
and Mrs. M. C. "Chef Smith, who
will take over operation on Oct-
. Merle Sleaaman took over
Monday aa manager of the local
A ft P store, replacing-^"
Sberna who. has-been t
to Fremont as assistant
The bouse to house drive li
night to kick oft the 1997 (
munity Chest drive brought 1
total of 3763.70 to .contributions;
the village's summer street resurfacing program has been complet-
ed at an estimated cost of 318,800.
Octoberi 3 >— Plans are neartngt
completiop foVsShelflST Hallowe'en parade sponsored by Clyde
Community Council here on October 31, and the tTNICEF "tricks
or .treats" contribution drive on
Monday, October' 28; Latest tabulation figures released by Bin.
Herman Fowler, fund treasurer, .
shows $1,094.63 collected In the
Clyde Community Chest Fund*
Drive. The goal Is set at 59,000;
The showdown on the gang of six
Clyde boys ranging in ages from
14 to 17 who have committed a
series of break-Ins and the.fls In
Clyde and Bellevue for the past
four to six weeks came here last
Friday night when Clyde police
stopped-fJve_of thejooys^ln a ear
that had been~spotted"twohTgnHT""
earlier at a place where one of
the thefts took place; A decision to
launch a 323,000 building fund
campaign to construct an educational building was made by the
Clyde Christian Church and will
be earned over a three-year period; Harry Russell, Jr. underwent
surgery in Toledo St. Vincent's
hospital yesterday morning for injuries suffered Tuesday in a one-
car wreck on State. Route 101 _
north of Clyde.
October 10 — A group of 12
mothers and members of the PTA'
invited themselves to the Village
Council meet Friday night and demanded action to help eliminate, .
the speeding, reckless driving, and
other dangerous traffic hazards
which they report exist with the
village and endangers the lives of
children going home from school
as well as other people; Going
into the third week, the Clyde
Community Chest Fund Drive has
only reached 31637.43 toward'the
38,000 goal; Miss_ Sue Jackson,
Clyde's 1957 Homecoming Queen,
wiR be crowned Saturday night at
halftime ceremonies of the Fremont St. Joseph-Clyde football
game to climax a weekend of
homecoming festivities including
a burning In effigy, pep session,
and dance; Clyde Board of Education recently authorized a survey
be made by the Ohio Department of Trades and Industries for
the purpose of determining the
educational needs,, present and
future. In these areas.
October 17 — The Influenza
outbreak continued to make deeper cuts into school attendance here
yesterday when reports disclosed
that there were 194 children absent from classes In the Clyde
public schools; At the November S
election this year Sandusky county residents will decide the. fate
of the County Home for the Aged,
whether It will be renovated, a
hew hdme constructed, or left as
Is; Clyde PTA wiU sponsor Its
annual Fall Festival, October 21
at the school on Vine street: Mrs.
E. B. Strong was elected president
of District Four of the Daughters
-of Union Veterans of the- Civil
War at a district meeting of the
group in Toledo Monday; Norman.. .
Thayer has leased the Cities Service station and property formerly
occupied by Harry Ernsberger and
the Clyde Auto Supply; Only 11-
646.11 has been received in the-
Clyde donmimilty-"-Ch«t""
Fund Drive, which came to a
close Saturday night.
October 24 —_Plans ore to make
this year's drivp fosjthe UNICEF
children's fund the biggest and
best campaign effort to date. The
porchlight solicitation will be
handled by the youngsters on
October 28 as they go from; door
to door asking for funds for the
nation's underprivileged children;
Clyde voters, at the November 5
election, wfll mark ballots for village coundlmen; Board of Education members, County court
Judges, Green Creek township
trustees, Sandusky County Home
bond Issue, and proposed amendments to the State Constitution; A
32,00(1 check from Whirlpool Cor-
poratlon, Clyde Division, has
pushed the Community . Cheat
Fund Drive to 34,381.61, a little
rer halfway to the 38.000 goal.
October 31 — Tonight h.the
big Hallowe'en celebration sponsored by Clyde Community Council and which includes costume
Judging, a parade of decorated
floats and vehicles, ' tea turned-
characters, n short downtown program, and the distribution of free
cider and doughnuts; Village
eminctlmen learned at their October 18 meel that the municipality
must pay 8330 Into the Volunteer
Firemen's Dependent Funds which .
under a new law that went Into ,
effect replaces Firemen's Indemnity Funds;. Clyde Public Library
will display 137 new books tor
National Book Week. November
4 to November 10; Absenteeism In
Clvde and area school* due to

Headlines Recount Events Of Busy Year In Clyde Community During 1951
One seldom (om into the activity at the 'New. Year without looking back over the outgoing year
to recall and usually remtniaee
| about the' events that have made
: the news.
It's been a. ihoit eventful
year for the village of Clyde.
■with the new change of government, new businesses, construction
and general renovation throughout
the village, and everyone'
ber one topic of conversation —
the weather, which has been quite
unpredictable for the whole 13
months.
Man y of the names And happenings that made The Enterprise
front page during 1857 have been
chaonologically arranged hi the
following paragraphs for
Joyment of our readers. For one
last time, here's 1097 as
It n
JANUARY
January 3 '— Lee Myers and
Associates, Inc., announced the
purchase of property formerly
- cupied by .the Camp Grand Tourist Court, located on' u. S. Route
30, from Mrs. L. A. Harris and
Mr. and Bars. Tom Wllbert; "Blue
1! Crutch Day" held as first .
Hon campaign in 19S7 March of
Dimes Drive; Clyde Board of Ed'
ucatlon authorized Clerk Bush
Richmond to negotiate a 1100,000
loan necessary for payment
bills and a bank note due last
year, and to meet the December
payroll .at the school; Willow
Theatre taken over by Robert J.
Nuhn and John E. Keller who
operate a theatre In Vermilion:
January. 10. — A quorum -of
Clyde's Charter Framing Coromis-
— Plans are neartngt
completiop foVsShelflST Hallowe'en parade sponsored by Clyde
Community Council here on October 31, and the tTNICEF "tricks
or .treats" contribution drive on
Monday, October' 28; Latest tabulation figures released by Bin.
Herman Fowler, fund treasurer, .
shows $1,094.63 collected In the
Clyde Community Chest Fund*
Drive. The goal Is set at 59,000;
The showdown on the gang of six
Clyde boys ranging in ages from
14 to 17 who have committed a
series of break-Ins and the.fls In
Clyde and Bellevue for the past
four to six weeks came here last
Friday night when Clyde police
stopped-fJve_of thejooys^ln a ear
that had been~spotted"twohTgnHT""
earlier at a place where one of
the thefts took place; A decision to
launch a 323,000 building fund
campaign to construct an educational building was made by the
Clyde Christian Church and will
be earned over a three-year period; Harry Russell, Jr. underwent
surgery in Toledo St. Vincent's
hospital yesterday morning for injuries suffered Tuesday in a one-
car wreck on State. Route 101 _
north of Clyde.
October 10 — A group of 12
mothers and members of the PTA'
invited themselves to the Village
Council meet Friday night and demanded action to help eliminate, .
the speeding, reckless driving, and
other dangerous traffic hazards
which they report exist with the
village and endangers the lives of
children going home from school
as well as other people; Going
into the third week, the Clyde
Community Chest Fund Drive has
only reached 31637.43 toward'the
38,000 goal; Miss_ Sue Jackson,
Clyde's 1957 Homecoming Queen,
wiR be crowned Saturday night at
halftime ceremonies of the Fremont St. Joseph-Clyde football
game to climax a weekend of
homecoming festivities including
a burning In effigy, pep session,
and dance; Clyde Board of Education recently authorized a survey
be made by the Ohio Department of Trades and Industries for
the purpose of determining the
educational needs,, present and
future. In these areas.
October 17 — The Influenza
outbreak continued to make deeper cuts into school attendance here
yesterday when reports disclosed
that there were 194 children absent from classes In the Clyde
public schools; At the November S
election this year Sandusky county residents will decide the. fate
of the County Home for the Aged,
whether It will be renovated, a
hew hdme constructed, or left as
Is; Clyde PTA wiU sponsor Its
annual Fall Festival, October 21
at the school on Vine street: Mrs.
E. B. Strong was elected president
of District Four of the Daughters
-of Union Veterans of the- Civil
War at a district meeting of the
group in Toledo Monday; Norman.. .
Thayer has leased the Cities Service station and property formerly
occupied by Harry Ernsberger and
the Clyde Auto Supply; Only 11-
646.11 has been received in the-
Clyde donmimilty-"-Ch«t""
Fund Drive, which came to a
close Saturday night.
October 24 —_Plans ore to make
this year's drivp fosjthe UNICEF
children's fund the biggest and
best campaign effort to date. The
porchlight solicitation will be
handled by the youngsters on
October 28 as they go from; door
to door asking for funds for the
nation's underprivileged children;
Clyde voters, at the November 5
election, wfll mark ballots for village coundlmen; Board of Education members, County court
Judges, Green Creek township
trustees, Sandusky County Home
bond Issue, and proposed amendments to the State Constitution; A
32,00(1 check from Whirlpool Cor-
poratlon, Clyde Division, has
pushed the Community . Cheat
Fund Drive to 34,381.61, a little
rer halfway to the 38.000 goal.
October 31 — Tonight h.the
big Hallowe'en celebration sponsored by Clyde Community Council and which includes costume
Judging, a parade of decorated
floats and vehicles, ' tea turned-
characters, n short downtown program, and the distribution of free
cider and doughnuts; Village
eminctlmen learned at their October 18 meel that the municipality
must pay 8330 Into the Volunteer
Firemen's Dependent Funds which .
under a new law that went Into ,
effect replaces Firemen's Indemnity Funds;. Clyde Public Library
will display 137 new books tor
National Book Week. November
4 to November 10; Absenteeism In
Clvde and area school* due to